MiniPC Show #106 – Welcome Brett, Self-Hosting For RPI4 and SEEED’s is Looking Good

Links:

Pinebook-Pro
These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.
https://github.com/McMarius11/Pinebook-Pro
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February Update: Post CNY and FOSDEM Status Report
Open. Friendly. Community Driven. A lot has happened in the past month. PinePhones have finally begun arriving in the hands of their owners, we had a great showing at FOSDEM, and new hardware was announced.
https://www.pine64.org/2020/02/15/february-update-post-cny-and-fosdem-status-report/
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HOWTO boot Manjaro ARM from NVME with uboot on eMMC on Pinebook Pro
This howto is current at the time of writing. It will become obsolete if there will be a version of uboot that can be easily and safely written to SPI flash. First download a package uboot-pinebookpro-2017.09-2-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz. It has uboot files with @pcm720 patches included.
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/howto-boot-manjaro-arm-from-nvme-with-uboot-on-emmc-on-pinebook-pro/119758
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Linux-based postmarketOS may support Android apps thanks to Anbox (PinePhone, Librem 5, and more)
One of the key selling points of Linux smartphones like the PinePhone and Purism Librem 5 is that they’re designed to run free and open source GNU/Linux-based operating systems rather than partially open software like Google Android.
https://liliputing.com/2020/02/linux-based-postmarketos-may-support-android-apps-thanks-to-anbox-pinephone-librem-5-and-more.html
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IoT Assistant
Carnegie Mellon University LabsTools Everyone
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.iotprivacy.iotassistant&hl=en_US
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Seeed’s Linux-friendly Gemini Lake SBC starts at $188
Seeed’s “Odyssey – X86J41058x” SBC starts at $188 with 8GB RAM and runs Linux or Win 10 on a quad-core, 1.5GHz/2.5GHz Celeron J4105 with Raspberry Pi, Arduino/Grove, and 2x M.2 slots. Options include 64GB eMMC and an enclosure.
http://linuxgizmos.com/seeeds-linux-friendly-gemini-lake-sbc-starts-at-188/
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Raspberry Pi 4 Rev 1.2 Fixes USB-C Power Issues, Improves SD Card Resilience
The first Raspberry Pi 4 boards suffered from a poor USB-C power supply compatibility due to issues for the power circuitry. That means if you bought the official USB-C power supply you had no issues, but if you wanted to re-use a spare USB-C power supply you may be out of luck.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/02/24/raspberry-pi-4-rev-1-2-fixes-usb-c-power-issues-improves-sd-card-resilience/
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Four-slot Raspberry Pi cluster board starts at $80
IPTerra’s “CloverPi” cluster board starts at $80 on Kickstarter, supporting up to 4x Raspberry Pi SBCs with power, switches, LEDs, and network headers for each plus a 5-port GbE switch with uplink port.
http://linuxgizmos.com/four-slot-raspberry-pi-cluster-board-starts-at-80/
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Bye Bye 1GB Pi
The 2GB RAM model of Raspberry Pi 4 has dropped in price by $10 to the $35 — the same as the 1GB. The price drop followed the confirmation last week that a new RPi 4 has been released that fixes the USB Type-C problem.
http://linuxgizmos.com/bye-bye-1gb-pi/
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Parsec | Cloud and Remote PC Gaming
Our technology delivers an ultra-smooth, low latency streaming experience — Any game, any time, no frills. Whether you’re in the next room, at the office, or traveling — Use Parsec to remote control your gaming PC from another device.
https://parsec.tv/www.parsec.tv
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A complete listing of self-hosting software for the Raspberry Pi
Selfhosting is the process of locally hosting and managing applications instead of renting from SaaS providers. This is a list of Free [wikipedia.org] Software network services [wikipedia.org] and web applications [wikipedia.org] which can be hosted locally.
http://www.jamesrobertson.eu/pages/2016/mar/09/a-complete-listing-of-self-hosting-software-for-the-raspberry-pi.html
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Random Nerd Tutorials | Learn ESP32, ESP8266, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi
Learn ESP32 with Arduino IDE Course » Complete guide to program the ESP32 with Arduino IDE! Build a Home Automation System from Scratch » With Raspberry Pi, ESP8266, Arduino, and Node-RED.
https://randomnerdtutorials.com/
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VSCodium/vscodium
This is not a fork. This is a repository of scripts to automatically build Microsoft’s vscode repository into freely-licensed binaries with a community-driven default configuration. More info / helpful tips are here.
https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium
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Chocolatey – The package manager for Windows
Chocolatey has the largest online registry of Windows packages. Chocolatey packages encapsulate everything required to manage a particular piece of software into one deployment artifact by wrapping installers, executables, zips, and/or scripts into a compiled package file.
https://chocolatey.org/

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